DeAnton Montrale Lil D. Davis, 26, was fatally shot on the evening of December 11, 2021 on the 4500 block of Apple Orchard Lane in Rockford, Illinois. He was taken to a local hospital and later pronounced dead. The Rockford Police Department is treating the death as a homicide and has said the shooting remains under investigation; no arrests or suspects have been publicly identified.

DeAnton was born September 5, 1995, and lived most of his life in Rockford with a brief period in Arkansas. He worked as a packer at General Mills, attended Jefferson and Guilford High School before earning a GED, and had been baptized as a member of Weary West Church in Arkansas. He is survived by his daughter Amira Davis, four sons Royal Hubbard, Cash Davis, DeAnton Davis Jr., and Kartier Davis, and his fiancée Taniquia Hubbard. Funeral services were held December 23, 2021 at Providence Baptist Church in Rockford.

If anyone has information about the December 11 shooting on Apple Orchard Lane, can you share what you know with investigators?